THE WEEKENDER
Your weekly editor-curated arts compendium
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The weather’s scheduled to get colder, but things are heating up around town! There’s fairs and markets to help you kick off your holiday shopping, conversations to engage you in your community and an embarrassment of opportunities to enjoy comedy and music. Top pick of the weekend? It’s impossible to choose between these Friday night shows, but if you time it right, you can catch both: Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei take over Sheslow Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., after which you can swing by Gas Lamp for Duma and friends, kicking off at 9. Rest up, Des Moines!
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Des Moines Botanical Garden
Botanical Card Crafting: Plant Pressed Cards
Nov 10 – 5:30pm
Learn the tips and tricks of pressing flowers
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Mainframe Studios
IEC’s Green Gala & Art Auction
Nov 10 – 6:30pm
Gala featuring music and art auction featuring Iowa artists.
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Ames Public Library
Junk Mail Migration Artist Reception and Talk
Nov 10 – 7:00pm
Artist Kristin Roach will talk about the Junk Mail Migration project and explain how she created the interactive Iowa migration mapping tapestry.
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Mainframe Studios
My City My Health Equity Summit
Nov 11 – 9:00am
Learn how culture influences health and the impact community and healthcare leaders make.
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xBk Live
Charlie Burg w/Genevieve Stokes
Nov 11 – 6:00pm
Charlie Burg w/Genevieve Stokes at xBk
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Noce
Rose Colella
Nov 11 – 7:00pm
LA Vocalist Rose Colella at Noce
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Teehee’s Comedy Club
Vik Pandya: Stand-Up Comedy
Nov 11 – 7:00pm
Vik Pandya is a nationally touring stand-up comic based in Chicago. Known for his sharp self-deprecation, observational humor on dating.
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Sheslow Auditorium
Abigail Washburn and Wu Fei in Concert
Nov 11 – 7:30pm
GRAMMY award-winning banjo artist Abigail Washburn and Guzheng virtuoso Wu Fei perform in their only Iowa performance. Don’t miss this once-in-a-lifetime musical experience!
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Fisher Theater
Night of the Living Dead: The Musical
Nov 11 – 7:30pm
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Gas Lamp Des Moines
Duma, ONO, Masma Dream World, Sarin
Nov 11 – 9:00pm
Duma, ONO, Masma Dream World, Sarin at Gas Lamp
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Lefty’s Live Music
Gorgatron w/The Rising Plague
Nov 11 – 9:30pm
Gorgatron | The Rising Plague | Bloodgeon | Frontal Assault
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Des Moines Downtown Farmers’ Market
Downtown Winter Market
Nov 12 – 9:00am
The 2022 Downtown Winter Farmers’ Market will take place on Saturday, Nov. 12 and Saturday, Dec. 3 outdoors along the streets of the Historic Court District.
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Dallas County Fairgrounds
Vintage & Made Fair
Nov 12 – 9:00am
Vintage & Made Fair Holiday Edition
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Studio on Second
Poets on the Prairie Readings
Nov 12 – 1:30pm
Poets on the Prairie Readings
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xBk Live
Display Case EP Release Show
Nov 12 – 6:00pm
Join Display Case for the release of their latest EP “Better, Yet”
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Teehee’s Comedy Club
Franksgiving
Nov 12 – 7:00pm
Solomon and Kitzman Presents is a game show in the panel show style.
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Gas Lamp Des Moines
Elour, Ephraim Zenh, Honey Dick
Nov 12 – 9:00pm
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Des Moines Art Center
Artist Lecture + Exhibition Reception: Miriam Alarcón Avila
Nov 13 – 1:30pm
Join Miriam Alarcón Avila, a photographer and multimedia artist and Laura Burkhalter of the Des Moines Art Center in a conversation about the artistic process and the importance of community making.
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The Atrium at Capital Square & Cowles Commons
Art Week Immersive Brainstorm
Nov 13 – 3:00pm
Artists interested in activating the Greater Des Moines area during Art Week are encourage to join in this conversation.
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Gas Lamp Des Moines
Anna Tivel
Nov 13 – 5:00pm
Oregon based singer-songwriter and storyteller
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Des Moines Civic Center
Joe Bonamassa
Nov 13 – 8:00pm
Blues-rock superstar Joe Bonamassa is one of the most celebrated performing musicians of today.
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Octagon Center for the Arts
All Kinds of Art
Nov 14 – 9:00am
Join the Octagon and get creative on your school day off!
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Teehee’s Comedy Club
Love, Antoinette
Nov 14 – 7:00pm
Comedy Show & Going Away Party
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Hoyt Sherman Place
Indigo Girls w/Mary Bragg
Nov 14 – 7:30pm
True Endeavors Presents Indigo Girls with special guest Mary Bragg
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Miriam Alarcón Avila brings luchador art, ofrenda to Des Moines Art Center this Dia de los Muertos
By Lily DeTaeye, Oct 29
On Sunday, Oct. 30, the Art Center will once again host its Día de los Muertos celebration after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. This year, the celebration will be focused around luchadores. |
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Press Profile: 508 Press, founded by Mackie Garrett
by Sarah Elgatian, Nov 8
508 Press is an independent press out of Iowa City that specializes in small runs of often event-specific poetry. Garrett created a reading series where he prints selections of the poems and stories shared for the evening’s attendees. Every print is one-of-a-kind and functions as a souvenir.
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Label Profile: 5CM Recordings, founded by Mathias Timmerman
by Genevieve Trainor, Nov 7
“In 2013, I played my first solo set (as Underwater Escape From the Black Hole) at one of the Zeitgeist fests that were held in Boone,” Mathias Timmerman, of Des Moines label 5CM Recordings, said in an email. “And I ended up meeting a lot of other folks who were running little DIY labels, putting out tapes and releases for the weird little experimental projects that they were currently in.” |
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